The Great Cobar Museum Upgrade

Cobar’s Heritage Museum Upgrade forms part of Cobar’s masterplan to upgrade the historic museum and enhance the exterior visitor experience. For this project, this included the new Coach House Museum and an externally landscaped area to display historic artifacts from Cobar’s rich mining history.

The Coach House delivers a new open museum space that houses a range of exhibits, from an iconic spring cart to original whetstones. The museum experience also includes a projector room that plays an interactive mining experience, showcasing what miners experienced and their work environment, to educate visitors. The Coach House is then joined to the Heritage Museum through a landscaped outdoor exhibit that displays historic mining artefacts, including hoisting, drilling, crushing, hauling, and powering equipment.

The completion of the new Coach House provides the local community and visiting tourists with a new walkable experience that captures the deep history of Cobar as a mining town.

In delivering this outcome for Cobar Council, Jenarc assumed the lead design and Superintendency role to ensure the complex museum design and artefact display could be brought to life within the Council’s budget.